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Proteus

Ancient Greek and Roman mythology

Phraseologism: However.

Meaning: A common noun for a person who is able to easily change his image, appearance, mood, etc. (jokingly ironic).

Origin: From ancient Greek mythology. A sea god who has the ability to change his appearance, taking on the appearance of both living beings and objects.

Random phraseology:

Hurry to do good.

Meaning:

About the need for good deeds and the transience of life.

Origin:

The words of the senior physician of the Moscow prison hospital Friedrich Josef (Fyodor Petrovich) Gaaz (1780-1853). FJ Haas was born in Germany (Bad Münstereifel). In 1806 he signed an employment contract with Princess Repnina as a family doctor and came to Russia. He became famous not only as a skilled doctor, but also as a trustee of the poor and those in prison. He did a lot to alleviate the fate of Russian prisoners, he even invented other heavy shackles instead of the then accepted heavy shackles - light, not injuring legs. He tested them on himself, going through the stage with the prisoners, and achieved the use of his shackles instead of the previous ones. At his own expense, he organized a "hospital for the homeless", in which he settled himself. He sold all his personal property - a house in Moscow, an estate near Moscow and a cloth factory - to help those in need. When the "holy doctor" (as the prisoners called him) died, he was buried at public expense. The phrase "make haste to do good" is a quotation from F.J. Haas' French book Appel aux femmes (A call to women), published posthumously. These words are carved on the monument erected on his grave (Vvedenskoye, the former German cemetery in Moscow), as well as on the pedestal of the monument, which was erected to F.J. Gaaz (1909, sculptor N.A. Andreev) in Moscow.

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